Cops really to blame
Re: "School head dies after shooting", (BP, Feb 12).
Patongprathankiriwat School director Sasipat Sinsamosorn was indeed killed by the incompetence of our police, for it was they who empowered an erratic youth to commit the foul deed.
How so? "Two policemen and a village headman rushed to the scene. The teen threatened them with a knife, chased them away, entered their patrol vehicle, (and) stole their submachine gun".
Common sense would have told the police to use their guns before the perpetrator got within hand-to-hand range.
It's no secret that our police are corrupt, with, for example, former national police chief Pol Gen Torsak "Big Tor" Sukvimol and his deputy, Pol Gen Surachate "Big Joke" Hakparn, since dismissed, accusing each other of being on the take, with court-quality evidence.
Burin Kantabutra
Double standards
Re: "Keeper of the zoo", (PostBag, Feb 8), and "A nasty clip", (PostBag, Feb 9).
Last week US President Donald Trump shared a meme that included a clip depicting former president Barack Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama as apes, with predictable outrage from liberals and progressives, as well as from Postbag contributors Miro King and Dennis Fitzgerald who denounce Mr Trump as a racist.
So depicting the Obamas as apes is bad, but liberals posting memes of Mr Trump as an orang-utan is OK.
Also OK is depicting Mr Trump's bloody, decapitated head (Kathy Griffin).
Liberals also post online mock executions of Mr Trump, and barely a day goes by without him being called a Nazi, a fascist and likening him to Hitler. All apparently OK.
Peter Atkinson
Big words backfire
Re: "Grandstanding at the Grammys", (Life, Feb 7).
I just want to comment on the controversy regarding American pop singer Billy Eilish who gave a speech at the Grammy Awards.
She said you cannot be illegal on stolen land and uttered a vulgar word regarding law enforcement officers (ICE).
In the wake of her remarks it has come to attention that Eilish's US$13m (404 million baht) mansion in California is actually on stolen land that belongs to the Tongva tribe.
Ellish lives in a mansion surrounded by a high security wall and dozens of security cameras to prevent people trespassing. She was trying to virtue signal but it has backfired catastrophically.
Mark J Hewitt
Worth promoting
Re: "Map it please", (PostBag, Feb 12) & "New Mekong riverside road due March next year", (BP, Feb 12).
I agree with Johnny Thoyts of Korat who bemoans the lack of clear geographical information in Post reporting.
I often travel from Mukdahan to Nakhon Phanom, always on the main road No. 212. Many times I wished it was closer to the Mekong River, as it would make a fantastic sightseeing route. Alas, it is too far away and thus not seen. So in December last year my wife has booked several resorts which are directly on the Mekong. We travelled on the Naka Vithi Mekong riverside route which was still being built and pictured in the Post on Feb 11.
The Post should publish a map of the road. Thailand which is desperate to attract tourists into the provinces, so why not?
Miro King, the traveller
